Iyengar Method

B.K.S. Iyengar (1918-2014) is considered both pioneer and innovator in the history of
modern day, therapeutic Yoga. Author of the prominent book Light on Yoga (1966), and
famous for having spread postural Yoga across the Western world, introducing props in its
practice (bricks, belts, blankets, bolsters, etc.), B.K.S. Iyengar is considered by the Times to
be one of the most influential people of the XX Century and has been indicated as the father
of modern postural Yoga in the important work of religious historian E. De Michelis, a
monograph entitled A History of Modern Yoga, 2004.
Throughout his over 70-year practice he elaborated a unique didactic method- based on the
gradual nature of teaching (with preparatory positions and specific variations) and both
accurate and adaptable instructions to better reach every student- making the practice of
postural Yoga accessible to students of every age, constitution and physical ability.
His practice has been defined an Art, for its grace; and for its precision and depth it has been
called Science. The Iyengar language today is brought forward with passion and competence
by his children, at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune (India), and in
Iyengar Yoga Institutes and via certified Instructors worldwide.